Vexing in a sentence as an adjective

Perl eats C++'s "most vexing parse" for breakfast.

Or, come up with a novel vaccine for one of our most vexing diseases of our time, then give away the formulation for free[2]. That's how you change the world.

Calling a dispatch service is equally vexing. I'm with you, the doom of the Taxi business can't come soon enough for me.

Yeah, out of all these only the "most vexing parse" struck me as somewhat obscure simply because it's so insidious. The rest...

This is especially vexing, as my biggest complaint with my current iPad is that it doesn't have enough of it.

This is especially vexing, because the feds should be the ones protecting us from bad actors, rather than bad actors themselves." This quote nails it for me.

Then I discovered these Hacker News commenters and realized that middling but self-important minds are far more vexing than dumb ones.

But at any rate, the point of the comparison is that it is a drastic solution to a vexing but not-so-drastic problem.

Why is a husband and wife talking to each other in a grocery store so vexing? Is it only if one is remote, or have you also looked into the ramifications of muzzling fellow shoppers?

Most vexing, hipsterism has difficulty describing itself. It uses words like "authentic" or "rare", but is largely not introspective.

After hundreds of different router models, it's vexing that so many of these companies are/were unable to come up with software as decent as ddwrt/openwrt to work on their OWN hardware. It's not even standardized across models.

In this situation, I recommend the following: - First, clearly identify exactly what issues are vexing you. If it seems like "everything" or "things are just overwhelming" then make a list of just the most important issues.

While that is despicable in itself, what is equally as vexing is that those hideous games were ever approved for the App Store in the first place. There is a massive disconnect between what Apple says regarding their review process and what actually happens.

Migration implementations for any platform have always been somewhat vexing for me, but South has been all but automatic for me. I've never had to deviate from `schemamigration app --auto && migrate app`.

This is true, and it's particularly vexing to work in the IC and have senior officials asking you to participate in outright illegal activities. It doesn't happen often, but I've seen both people ruin their careers saying no and those that want to keep their job and say yes.

I think Jim Dalrymple aptly phrases it in his comment to the linked article:\n”I found this profile frustrating, vexing. The tone is objective, but the prose manages to be damning at the same time, working in all the standard, shopworn stereotypes the Apple community has gotten used to having thrown their way.

Vimrc: " Disable arrow keys noremap noremap noremap noremap It'll be super annoying for the first day or two, vexing for the rest of the week, then you'll just forget it's even there.

What I find particularly vexing here: just a couple of years ago everybody was deriding the geeks hacking away on their computer, and didn't want to have anything to do with them. Now that they officially seem to have some fun, suddenly everybody wants in and the same people who made the nerds life **** 20 years ago by bashing them for their nerdiness now start bashing them for their alleged sexism and racism?

Diagnostic criteria for psychology and psychiatry are not that well developed yet, and communicating criteria for best practice to future teachers in schools of education or to in-service teachers through in-service training programs is already a vexing problem in reading instruction and mathematics instruction." Id see that pediatricians are trained to make screening for mental health concerns a regular part of well-child exams."

As a graduate student, I dedicated myself to number theory, what Gauss called "the queen of mathematics," the purest of the pure subjects, the sealed garden at the center of the convent, where we contemplated the same questions about numbers and equations that troubled the Greeks and have gotten hardly less vexing in the twenty-five hundred years since." At first I worked on number theory with a classical flavor, proving facts about sums of fourth powers of whole numbers that I could, if pressed, explain to my family at Thanksgiving, even if I couldn't explain how I proved what I proved.

Vexing definitions

adjective

extremely annoying or displeasing; "his cavelier curtness of manner was exasperating"; "I've had an exasperating day"; "her infuriating indifference"; "the ceaseless tumult of the jukebox was maddening"

See also: exasperating infuriating maddening

adjective

causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong"